Posts Tagged homophobia
Defining “Religious Liberty”
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights, Religious Liberty on March 25th, 2012
Tomorrow, the South Bend City Council will consider amending its Human Rights Ordinance to include protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation. HR Ordinances–while relatively toothless in Indiana–express a municipality’s intent to discourage some people from picking on other people based solely upon their religion, race, gender and other markers that are irrelevant to the [...]
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And the Beat-em-up Goes On….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on March 12th, 2012
What is it with the homophobia? It’s one thing to believe–based upon a (highly selective) version of the bible–that gay people are immoral. You want to think that, fine. It’s a free country. As I used to say, if you don’t like gay folks, don’t invite any of them to dinner. Your loss. Of course, [...]
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Pollyanna versus Gloomy Gus
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on January 9th, 2012
Since I so often fill this space with depressing observations, I’m going to begin this week by indulging my inner Pollyanna. My (non-scientific) theory is that the rash of efforts we are seeing around the country to break the backs of unions, ensconce anti-gay laws in state constitutions, and weaken government oversight of everything from [...]
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Toxic Times
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on July 28th, 2010
I returned to Indianapolis after a week of being blessedly unconnected to “the usual suspects”—otherwise known as the media/chattering classes/punditocracy—to find that the National Organization for Marriage had been through town. Some forty “pro-marriage” demonstrators had promoted loving relationships with signs suggesting that gay people should be murdered. One particularly nasty poster featured a picture [...]
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I Will Never Understand
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on April 22nd, 2010
I always thought that advanced age would bring wisdom—or if not wisdom, at least a greater understanding of the world and the human beings who populate it. I was wrong. There are things I will never, ever understand. A month or so ago, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled that the rights of high school [...]
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